Morphology Flashcards
1
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Blends
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- parts of two words meshed together
e.g. bromance
2
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Initialisms vs Acronyms
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- initialisms - pronounced letter by letter
e.g. RSPCA - acronyms - pronounced normally as a word
e.g. NASA - essential to communication with technology
3
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Shortening
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- reduction of a word
e.g. fridge|refridgerator
4
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Compounding
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- combining two whole free morphemes
e.g. bookshelf
5
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Contractions
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- use of an apostrophe to join two words
- aid fluency, decrease formality in written mode
e.g. we’ve, can’t
6
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Collocations
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- group of words that are known to belong together
e.g. spoilt milk, fork and knife
7
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Neologisms
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- newly coined/created words
e.g. Google
8
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Conversion
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- converting a word from one class to another
e.g. email - noun|to email - verb
9
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Borrowing
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- words integrated from other languages
e.g. sushi
10
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Commonisation
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- proper nouns turning into everyday nouns
e.g. Thermos - vacuum flask
11
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Archaism
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- words from past eras that have died out
e.g. thee, thy, thou
12
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Affixation
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- prefix - morpheme at the front of a word
e.g. uneasy - infix - morpheme in the middle of a word, informal AE
e.g. fan-bloody-tastic - suffix - morpheme at the end of a word
e.g. heartless
13
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Diminutives/Suffixation
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- shortening words and adding suffixes to create diminutives
- characteristic of AE
e.g. arvo, Albo
14
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Morphological Patterning
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- repeated process of word-formation presences
